Social Bookmarking

Bookmarks are useful for saving a favorite Web site for future reference. When I find a good Web site, I create a bookmark so that I can use it again later. In an effort to show my students good Web sites for their studies, I often reference these sites that I have bookmarked.

Social bookmarking works the same way, except I no longer need to print out a list of Web sites for my students to visit. Instead, I use an account that stores all of my bookmarks to a remote site. I can log in to this account and add tags (descriptive keywords) and notes about each site. I can delete sites from my list or make them private. I can even bundle sites together into related categories.

To share my bookmarks with students, I only need to give them one address: delicious.com/melindajohnson. If students or colleagues have their own delicious.com accounts, they can click once to add me to their network and my links will appear on their own pages.

Popular social bookmarking sites:
Del.icio.us
Furl
Stumble Upon